Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

A new edition of the greatest novel of Scotland The Romantic notion of the divided self is nowhere more powerfully conceived than in James Hoggs masterpiece, "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. An account of a man haunted by the Devil in the form of his own evil double, it precedes Dostoyevskys great dramas of sin, self-accusation, and damnation by half a century.

James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He is best known for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

Adrian Hunter is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling. He is author of The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English (2007), and of several articles and chapters on British and North American short fiction. He is currently editing a volume of James Hogg's contributions to international periodicals for the definitive Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of Hogg's work, also published by Edinburgh University Press.

Barbara Leonardi earned her AHRC-funded PhD from the University of Stirling, winning the 2013 Ross Roy Medal for the best doctoral thesis in Scottish literature. From 2014-17, she served as Research Assistant on the AHRC-funded project James Hogg: Contributions to International Periodicals. She specialises in the 19th-century periodical press; the Romantic novel; gender, class, and race in the long 19th-century; and pragmatic linguistics applied to literature. She has published on Hogg, Walter Scott and Mary Wollstonecraft; is a reviewer for The Year's Work in English Studies; and edited Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond (Palgrave, 2018).